Events Archive

Conference on "Understanding Residential Water Use: New Approaches to Analyzing, Projecting and Managing Demand"; Joint with the Decision Center for a Desert City

May 11, 2012
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Special Lecture: March 14, 2012

Gernot Wagner
Economist at the Environmental Defense Fund
Author of "But Will the Planet Notice? How Smart Economics Can Save the World"
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Department Seminar: February 20, 2012

Hendrik Wolff
University of Washington
"Value of Time: Speeding Behavior and Gasoline Prices"
Seminar Paper (PDF)

Department Seminar: February 9, 2012

Radek Stefanski
University of Oxford
"Windfalls, Structural Transformation and Specialization"
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Department Seminar: January 31, 2012

Kevin Novan
University of California, San Diego
"Valuing the Wind: Renewable Energy Policies and Air Pollution Avoided"
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Department Seminar: January 27, 2012

Yaniv Stopnitzky
Yale University
"The Bargaining Power of Missing Women: Evidence from a Sanitation Campaign in India"
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Department Seminar: January 20, 2012

Stephen Ryan
MIT
"Market-based Emissions Regulation and the Evolution of Market Structure"
Seminar Paper (PDF)

Department Seminar: January 13, 2012

Ryan Sandler
University of California, Davis
"Clunkers or Junkers? Adverse Selection in a Vehicle Retirement Program"
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Department Seminar: January 11, 2012

Sebastien Houde
Stanford University
"How Consumers Respond to Product Certification: A Welfare Analysis of the Energy Star Program"
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Department Seminar: December 2, 2011

Ryan Kellogg
University of Michigan
"The Formation and Persistence of Automobile Brand Preferences"
Seminar Paper (PDF)

Department Seminar: October 21, 2011

W. Reed Walker
Columbia University
"The Transitional Costs of Sectoral Reallocation: Evidence From the Clean Air Act and the Workforce"
Seminar Paper (PDF)

Conference on "Macro Economics and the Environment: Climate Change, Policy Design and Sustainability "

May 5, 2011
Conference Agenda (PDF)
Conference Details (PDF)

Department Seminar: March 2, 2011

Joseph Herriges
Iowa State University
"Capturing Preferences Under Incomplete Scenarios Using Elicited Choice Possibilities"
Seminar Paper (PDF)

Department Seminar: February 24, 2011

Derek Lemoine
University of California, Berkeley
"Tipping Points and Ambiguity in the Integrated Assessment of Climate Change"
Seminar Paper (PDF)

Department Seminar: February 23, 2011

Kevin Boyle
Virginia Tech
"Are Benefit-Transfer Errors Explainable or are Benefit Transfers Just a Shot in the Dark?"
Seminar Paper (PDF)

Department Seminar: January 24, 2011

Kenneth Gillingham
Stanford University
"How Do Consumers Respond to Gasoline Price Shocks? Heterogeneity in Vehicle Choice and Driving Behavior"
Seminar Paper (PDF)

Department Seminar: January 21, 2011

Garth Heutel
University of North Carolina, Greensboro
"Optimal Policy Instruments for Externality-Producing Durable Goods Under Time Inconsistency"
Seminar Paper (PDF)

Department Seminar: November 12, 2010

Patrick Bayer
Duke University
"A Dynamic Model of Demand for Houses and Neighborhoods"
Seminar Paper (PDF)

Department Seminar: November 1, 2010

Wolfram Schlenker
Columbia University
"Identifying Supply and Demand Elasticities of Agricultural Commodities: Implications for U.S. Ethanol Mandate"
Seminar Paper (PDF)

Department Seminar: October 25, 2010

Mark Jacobsen
University of California, San Diego
"Fuel Economy, Car Class Mix, and Safety"
Seminar Paper (PDF)

Conference on "Economic Evaluations of Water/Energy Interactions for Policy"

Energy Policy Lectures Series 2008-2009

Series Announcement (PDF)

Barbara K. Buchner
October 15, 2008
Energy and Environment Analyst,
International Energy Agency

Paul Joskow
November 5, 2008
President, Alfred P. Sloan Foundation;
Elizabeth and James Killian Professor of Economics and Management,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (on leave 2008)

Half Day Energy Policy Session - December 3, 2008

Agenda and Lecture Information (PDF)

• Stephen Brown
  Former Director of Energy Economics and Microeconomic Policy Analysis,
  Dallas Federal Reserve Bank
• Charles Cicchetti
  Senior Advisor, Navigant Consulting, Inc.;
  Partner, Pacific Economics Group, LLC
• Ed Fox
  Vice President and Chief Sustainability Officer,
  Arizona Public Service Company and Parent Company, Pinnacle West Capital Corporation
• Tim James
  Director of Research and Consulting, L. William Seidman Research Institute,
  Research Professor, Economics, W. P. Carey School of Business,
  Arizona State University

Robert Pindyck
January 21, 2009
Bank of Toyko-Mitsubishi Professor, Economics and Finance, Sloan School of Management,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Severin Borenstein
February 25, 2009
E. T. Grether Professor, Business Administration and Public Policy,
Haas Economic Analysis and Policy Group Director,
University of California Energy Institute

Guest Lecture: April 30, 2008

W.L. (Vic) Adamowicz, Ph.D.
University of Alberta
"Measuring Economic Tradeoffs for Ecosystem Services: The Case of Western Canadian Boreal Plans"
Lecture Information (PDF)

Guest Lecture: April 16, 2008

Catherine Kling, Ph.D.
Iowa State University
"Costing the Gulf's Dead Zone: Controlling Agricultural Nutrients Impacting the Hypoxic Zone"
Lecture Information (PDF)

Economics of Climate Policy Workshop Series 2007-2008

Series Announcement (PDF)

Raymond J. Kopp
"Designing Federal Climate Policy"
October 2007
Workshop Information (PDF)

Wolfram Schlenker
"Estimating the Impact of Climate Change on US Agriculture: The importance of non-linear temperature effects
October 2007
Workshop Information (PDF)

Sir Partha Dasgupta
"Discounting Climate Change"
November 13, 2007
Workshop Information (PDF)

William Pizer
"Global Climate Change Policy: What is Achievable and What are the Options?"
January 23, 2008
Workshop Information (PDF)

Ian Sue Wing
"The Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative: Emission Leakage and Effectiveness of Interstate Border Adjustments"
March 19, 2008
Workshop Information (PDF)